2010 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCES.
Chapter 18 - Trespasses; Fences (55-298 thru 55-335)
55-310 - How governing body of county may make local fence law.
§ 55-310. How governing body of county may make local fence law.
The board of supervisors or other governing body in any county in this State after posting notice of the time and place of meeting thirty days at the front door of the courthouse, and at each voting place in the county, and by publishing the same once a week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of such county, if any be published therein, and if none be published therein, in some newspaper having a general circulation therein, a majority of the board being present and concurring, may declare the boundary line of each lot or tract of land, or any stream in such county, or any magisterial district thereof, or any selected portion of such county, to be a lawful fence as to any or all of the animals mentioned in § 55-306, or may declare any other kind of fence for such county, magisterial district or selected portion of the county than as prescribed by § 55-299 to be a lawful fence, as to any or all of such animals.
(Code 1950, § 8-880; 1977, c. 624.)
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